Church thoughts

Ya know, you KNOW a good church, when everytime you go, it seems like the sermon is directed straight at you. We're now going to a new church since they have a special needs class for D, and MAN, tonite's sermon was God whispering in my ear, saying, "listen closely"...OK GOD, I GET IT! It was all about making excuses for not doing what God is calling us to do. And I've been feeling for awhile that God is urging me towards something and I can't figure out exactly how to DO IT. I know He's got this...I know it. But I need to suck it up and take the leap, and I'm finding that very difficult. The pastor related it to Moses and the burning bush. When Moses kept saying he couldn't do it and finally asked God to find someone else to do it. But in the end, Moses was the one who led the people out of Egypt, he fulfilled his destiny, and what would have happened if he'd kept making excuses and never done it? I need to get rollin on this, but I'll be the first to admit that I'm scared to step out there on my own and risk failure. Anyone else ever feel like that?

Ugggh some people...

Check out this news article. Its about a teacher who basically lost it, and had a 5 year old (who is getting tested for aspergers) STAND in front of the class while the other students told him what they don't like about him, and then had the students vote on if he should leave the class. WTH is WRONG with people these days??? There is absolutely NO excuse for that! I read on another board "her side" of the story, and ya know, I don't care HOW bad your day has been, how disruptive he's being, how frustrated you are. We ALL have bad days, but that does not give you the right to emotionally abuse a child like that! With D, I know HE acts up in class, and we even now have behavior/social/emotional goals written into his IEP, and I constantly worry about other kids teasing him or ostracizing him. But it never occurred to me that a TEACHER would be the cause of it. They're supposed to teach our children, support them, we trust them with them all day long. I'm really hoping they throw the proverbial book at her.

Kids and Timing

Can I just comment briefly on how BAD kids timing is? Especially when it pertains to going potty. I'd been asking D ALL DAY if needed to go potty (specifically, poop) and he waits til I'm halfway through my one mile workout to say he needed to go. lol Fortunately, he really did go and he DID tell me...so even though I had to pause it in the middle to go help him finish, I guess it was all good. But sheeesshhhhh...

I need a drink...

but they have too many calories...so does chocolate...lol Yes I'm sure you wanted to know that. It was an emotionally trying evening for me, and I'm sitting here writing this because I want to snack, my emotional eating self is tryin to take over, and I'm fighting it. If you haven't seen it already, one of my other blogs is dedicated to losing weight (see link on right), this might be more appropriate there, so I think I'll just focus this more on the emotions side of things to avoid redundancy.

I hate sometimes that I have to analyze my emotions. When things like this occur, I could spend a whole night going round and round on it in my mind to try to sort it out. I know I overanalyze. And I'm sitting here watching a sappy movie to enhance it. Am I crazy??? Bah, I think I'll go to bed.

Whats up this weekend?

First I gotta say the same thing everyone else is saying. Gas prices are HORRENDOUS! And in an suv that sucks it dry, I'm dyin here! I wish I could figure out how to get out of it without taking myself deeper into debt, and having no available spending cash. I thought my long 3 day weekend was gonna suck but now...I am SO looking forward to this! So far, its setting up for a great weekend if the weather will cooperate. I was supposed to go to the lake with family, but we'd only be going for a day, its 2 hours one way, and thats about 60 bucks in gas I'd have to spend for a DAY! No, thanks, that can be grocery money...instead, on Sunday, we're gonna hit up ArtFest at Fair Park, and ride the train down to it. Then on Monday, go on a picnic with some other moms at the Addison Fountains. All in all, its gonna be busy and crazy, and we're gonna love it!

Food-wise, I made it through last weekend (the first weekend of the diet) just fine, and I'm feeling pretty confident that I have a good handle on this. At least the calorie part, maybe not carbs and fat and sodium and all that fun stuff, but calories...I got this!

Stay tuned to the Adventure blog for pics from the weekend...and come back here soon, I have a big rant I'm workin on, some interesting news articles, and some other fun stuff coming up soon.

The brevity of life

I was reading about the tragic accidental death of Stephen Curtis Chapman's daughter last night, and talking about this some with a friend, and really got to thinking last night. Noone on this earth
knows when its time for them to go (not counting those who take their own lives), and our lives could be over in the blink of an eye. We have to live every day, every hour, every MINUTE, with meaning, because it could be our last. How many times have we screwed up, and had the chance to rectify our mistake? Well, what if, just what if, you didn't have that chance. We need to watch our words, choose them carefully, and use them sparingly to make them count. Make every act be out of Christ's love, and control our frustration, our impatience. Because we could never get the chance to take it back.

And we begin...

Ok so we have the Adventures of Lil D and his mom (me), but I decided I needed a blog where I could just TALK, about myself, things goin on in our life, my rants, whatever. I wanted to leave the other blog intact as being mainly a photo blog of things D and I do. So here we are. Feel free to comment on whatever you want, I'm just gonna start putting this stuff out there. Its all IMHO.

Oh and...welcome!